Body Corporate and Community Management
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Free information session
Due to popular demand, the Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management will be holding a free information seminar in Brisbane on Monday 29 June 2009.
The seminar will focus on owners’ rights and responsibilities under the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997.
The information session will be held from 6.30pm to 8.30pm at:
Cliftons Conference Centre
288 Edward Street
Brisbane City
To reserve your place please ring 3227 7654 or email at bccm@justice.qld.gov.au.
New forms
The Office of the Commissioner for Body Corporate and Community Management (BCCM Office) has relocated to Level 17, 288 Edward Street, Brisbane.
New versions of the approved forms which include the address of the BCCM Office (Forms 15 (v08), 22 (v03) and 23 (v03)), as well as Forms 4 and 5 and the form for applying for a Referee's order, have been prepared to identify the new address. They are available on our forms page.
Please note Forms 15, 22 and 23 are approved to commence on 19 June 2009. Approval for the previous versions of these forms will be withdrawn on 22 July 2009.
As of 1 January 2009 the maintenance requirements for fire safety installations in Queensland buildings will need to comply with a new fire safety maintenance code.
If you are a manager of a building, it is important to understand how you can identify if your building has prescribed fire safety installations and what your obligations are to maintain these. A fact sheet relating to the maintenance of fire safety installations can be found here.
For further information please contact the Department of Infrastructure and Planning on 3227 8548 or the QFRS on 3247 8100.
The Commissioner's Office
The role of the Commissioner's office is to assist people who live, work or invest in community titles schemes in accordance with the powers conferred on it by the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (the BCCM Act).
The BCCM Act states that the Commissioner's office must provide a dispute resolution service and an information service. The dispute resolution service resolves disputes through conciliation or adjudication. The information service responds to community enquiries about the legislation, promotes our services and conducts information seminars to assist our clients to understand their rights and obligations under the BCCM Act. The Commissioner's office also provides a search facility enabling the public to access adjudicator's orders affecting particular community titles schemes.
All of these services are primarily delivered through our Brisbane office, however regional Queensland is served by a freecall information line (1800 060 119) and by seminars delivered in response to client needs.
The main objectives of the Commissioner's office are to provide people involved with community titles schemes with:
- an efficient and relevant information and education service
- a quality dispute resolution service which is timely and responsive
- prompt and accurate searches of adjudicators orders.
Services provided
Our office provides the following services:
- a dispute resolution service for people involved with community titles schemes
- information in response to telephone and written enquiries from clients
- personal meetings with clients to provide information
- information seminars (for information on current seminars, click here)
- information brochures on the legislation
- maintenance of a database of adjudicator's orders relating to individual community titles schemes
- searches of adjudicator's orders
- liaison with interest groups and industry bodies to ensure that our services are meeting client needs.
The complete text of selected adjudicator decisions is available through Australasian Legal Information Institute. This website is continually updated to include recent orders.
Acts administered
Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997
Building Units and Group Titles Act 1980
1800 060 119
07 3227 8023
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